beg for chivalry

As night fell, the wind and snow gradually subsided, and the sky seemed to be washed clean.Yu Xie wiped the knife with soft deerskin in the hut, and carefully applied the oyster ointment, the sharp edge was as green as a new willow leaf on a spring branch.

She was a little restless today, she stopped repeatedly when she was fighting, and what Yu Qiuxia said to her echoed in her ears.After the knife was ready, she went to bed and lay down with all her clothes on.After closing his eyes for a while, he heard the whistling sound of a knife coming from the Zhizhai window.

Yu Xie was a little annoyed, the noise seemed to be someone wielding a knife outside the room in the middle of the night, and she couldn't close her eyes because of the noise.She stepped on the silk shoes and got off the ground, moved to the window, opened the window and looked out angrily.

I don't know which stupid disciple, why are you working hard here in the middle of the night?If you don't work hard during the day, can you make up for it at night?But this look made her stunned, and the hand holding the window froze in mid-air, forgetting to move for a long time.

The ground outside the window was covered with thin snow, and the little boy she saw in the daytime was wielding a knife on it panting, chopping, swinging, chopping, and slashing, the light of the knife intertwined finely, and he tried his best in every move.He has eyes that are as bright as black jade, and the deep night seems to be unable to extinguish the fire in his eyes.Thin beads of sweat dripped from his cheeks, and it seemed that steam was rising from the snow. The snow where the little boy stood had melted, revealing a piece of dark land.

The master's words seemed to ring in her ears again, Yu Xie stood there blankly, remembering the story Yu Qiuxia told her today.

This young man named Wang Xiaoyuan came from Jiading, which is thousands of miles away. His family was slaughtered by the assassins of Houtianlou, so he wandered here alone, wearing a kudzu robe, and climbed up the extremely cold Tianshan Mountain .He knocked his head up the cliff, broke his own bones with an iron pestle, blood stained the narrow path red.

From the day he entered the mountain gate, he practiced the sword like a madman. It seems that he loves the sword so much that he has gone mad.It is heard that he practiced the knife for nine hours a day, even when he was taking a nap, he never took his hands off the knife, his fingers trembled in his dreams, as if he was chopping horizontally and vertically in a dreamland.The Tianshanmen disciples often saw him with blue eye sockets, dull eyes, disheveled hair and dirty clothes, muttering sword formulas in his mouth, with a few torn sword manuals tucked around his waist.

But even if this person is so insane, his mind is extremely stupid, ordinary people can memorize saber moves by heart after one or two hours of learning, but he has to rehearse hundreds of times before he can remember the general outline.He seems to have learned the first two moves of the Yubai sword technique and is using them over and over again, but it's a pity that the sword dance is like a long insect crawling on the ground, so stupid.

"It's stupid."

After looking at it for a while, Yuxie was also tired, so he stretched out his hand to cover the window.Just let that idiot practice for a long time, she sat on the edge of the bed, loosened her hair, lifted the thick quilt to cover her body, and closed her eyes.

But her eyes were closed, but the sound of swiping a knife in her ears was endless, once and for all, persistent and lonely echoing, her heart was also pounding, and her thoughts were like tangled vines, slowly climbing to her chest.She thought of the night when she left home, the moon at that time was as bright and pale as it is tonight, like a round hole in the sky, a white horse galloped through the forest with her on its back, crushing fallen leaves and disturbing hooves The sound seemed to break her heart.A hoarse voice shouted from behind, laughing obscenely.

——"Little ladies of the Xu family, let's see where you can escape to?"

——"Turn back! I can chase you to the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and I can also chase you to the ends of the earth. If you don't come back, I will take your mother and sisters to the Jiaofang Secretary!"

A loud crack of the horsewhip shattered her dream.Yu Xie opened her eyes suddenly, it was clearly an extremely cold night, but her face was covered with thin sweat.She sat up slowly, panted and pressed her chest, stepped on the plain shoes, and moved to the front of the mirror.

Reflected in the bronze mirror is a young girl's clear and pale face, embedded with a pair of big and deep phoenix eyes, but her stubborn expression is as fragile as a reflection in a lake, and will shatter if touched.

During the day, she is the "big sister" revered by the disciples of Tianshanmen, the enviable youngest daughter of the Xu family, but only she knows that her father and brother have been falsely accused of being imprisoned, and the Xu family is already in turmoil and is about to collapse.

Haijin Rong, who always regarded Xu's family as a thorn in his side, even worse, stomped ashes on their heads.The second son of the Rong family is a rough warrior who likes to bully frivolous women. He took a fancy to her beauty, so he said he would take her home as a concubine.Yu Xie refused to do what he wanted, so he sent men to chase after him.The rude second son married a three-bedroom wife and had ten concubines. Yu Xie once saw those women in the deep gate from a distance on the street. Their faces were ashen and there were bruises on their necks.The house often carries out the longevity Fang, and does not invite people to brag, but is quietly buried in the Louze Garden.

"Don't be afraid... Phew, don't be afraid..." the girl whispered softly while pressing her violently trembling chest.After a long time, she opened her eyes lazily, only to see that her eyes were bloodshot, and the tears were about to fall. She blinked blankly, and the tears shattered on the wooden platform, like broken petals.

Maybe she is also a floating weed with no one to rely on, but she is just trying to be strong and deceiving herself and others.

The sound of swinging a knife came from outside the window, monotonous but solid.Yuxie walked to the window again as if she had lost her soul, and lifted the window frame, only to see the white snow outside the window, and the young boy who had been wielding the knife in the middle of the night was still stubbornly waving the knife.Beads of sweat swayed in the air and fell into the snow, melting into tiny dimples.He didn't know how many thousands or tens of thousands of times he swung the saber, back and forth as if tirelessly, standing still in the night.

For some reason, Yu Xie's high-hanging heart suddenly fell. She looked at the figure, and the shadow of the nightmare seemed to quietly recede from her heart. At this time, she actually felt a little relieved.

"...so stupid."

This time she stretched out her hand to fully open the window, leaned against the window, and deliberately raised her voice.These words seemed to be in the ears of the little boy, he stopped in confusion, his clothes were soaked in sweat, he stood in the snow with a knife in his hand, and looked towards the hut where Yuxie was.

"Senior Sister?" Wang Xiaoyuan muttered, "Did I bother you?"

Yu tilted his chin, snorted softly, and said angrily, "Yes, you are really noisy! How can someone make a noise like felling wood at night, and practice knives in front of other people's huts?"

"Before you didn't come back, I came here every night to practice swords. Also, it's not like no one would practice swords in front of the dormitory." Wang Xiaoyuan pointed to himself with a confused expression, "I... I am one."

The girl was a little annoyed, she reached out to grab a ball of snow from under the window, raised her hand and threw him on the head.Wang Xiaoyuan didn't know how to hide either, his forehead turned blue from the snow, and the snow scattered all over his head and face.

"Hey, stupid Xiaoyuan, let me tell you, if you practice swords like you, ten years or one hundred years of practice will not be effective!"

Wang Xiaoyuan didn't look very depressed, he just lowered his head and patted the snow on his body, "That's what the brothers say."

"That's right, everyone says that about you, it means that you have made a big mistake in the method of exercising qi and practicing the sword, why are you still unwilling to change?"

"But how do I know if what they said is right or wrong?" Wang Xiaoyuan opened his eyes and asked in a daze.

"Because everyone said you were wrong!" Yu Xie couldn't help but get angry, why is this kid so stubborn and doesn't know how to adapt?She had some headaches, no wonder she hadn't improved after practicing the knife for two years, this kid didn't have holes in his head at all.

"Are the words of people other than me correct? What I say are all wrong?" Wang Xiaoyuan tilted his head and asked seriously, "Are the words of many people accurate? What you said was right when you were together, but wrong when you were apart, is there such a thing?"

Yu Xie was almost bored by him, and no longer cared about the worldly etiquette and noble demeanor, she pushed open the fan, rushed into the snow, grabbed his wrist, and led him into the hut.Wang Xiaoyuan was dragged into the dormitory by her in a daze, and before he could struggle, she held his head and face forcefully.

"Look at you, although you are stupid, you have a lot of fallacies. But no matter how much you talk, you are still an impolite boy." Yu Xie squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "Hey, junior brother, I will not argue with you today. The method of the knife is right or wrong, first of all you have to remember the rules of the Tianshan Gate."

She smiled gently, but it made Wang Xiaoyuan shiver.

This kid was very dirty, and he neither changed his clothes nor tied his hair.Yu Xie pinched her nose in distaste, and went to build some firewood by herself to make hot soup.Most Tianshanmen disciples like cleanliness, and there is a rule of dressing neatly, and she is no exception, she can't bear this kid's beggar-like appearance.

When the hot soup came, she soaked a silk towel in water and threw it to the boy to scrub his head and face, and asked him to use the water-soaked comb to clean his hair, and tied a piece of white silk from the hem of his clothes for him.Standing behind him, Yu Xie saw a clean and fair face from the water, which was different from the dusty and dirty face before, and seemed to be glowing with moisture.

"This is you?"

Yu Xie looked at Wang Xiaoyuan's face reflected on the water in surprise.It was a young man with red lips and white teeth, far from the crooked eyes and mouth she had imagined earlier.In the dim candlelight, he looked like a slightly heroic girl.

"Yes..." Wang Xiaoyuan nodded.Yu Xie stretched out her hand in amazement to explore his bones, it was more flexible than she had imagined, it was as soft as a pulled bone, but it contained inner strength.The shattered bones have healed, it seems that Elder Xi Xun has guided his inner qi, and the inner qi in his body has turned and harmonized.

Maybe this is really a good seedling who is good at learning swords, Yu Qiuxia didn't miss it.

Yu squinted his eyes sideways, met his eyes, and his eyes flickered a little.After a long time, she asked hesitantly, "You...are you really not a girl?"

Wang Xiaoyuan said frankly, "Many people say I look alike." Because of this, he was sold many times by Mrs. Wang.

"Yubai's saber technique is based on the principle that the weak prevail over the strong. It's not good to use the knife quickly and quickly. You need to penetrate the shoulder, Tianfu, Jianshi and other acupoints. The slower and smoother the better." Yuxie said. Holding his arm, the catkin lightly pressed on each acupuncture point, Wang Xiaoyuan flinched a little shyly. "The truth is that you should not beat your opponents, hide your strengths and rest your strengths. The master should have told you."

"Master...Master told me." Wang Xiaoyuan stammered, "But I'm stupid, I can't remember..."

"Diligence can make up for clumsiness. If you can't remember, just remember it a few more times." Yu Xie's tone softened, she dusted off the dust on Wang Xiaoyuan's body, and said with a smile, "Although you are a little stupid, you are still very stupid, but you can still count on it." , It will take another four or five years, and maybe you can get a glimpse of the path of Yubai Saber."

After she said these words, she saw Wang Xiaoyuan staring at her blankly. After a while, tears fell from her dark eyes.

Yu Xie was startled and asked him, "What's wrong?"

"Senior sister, I can't wait anymore." Wang Xiaoyuan murmured, "I have been in Tianshan for two years, practicing swords day and night, but I am still very clumsy and can't do anything."

"No one who practices martial arts for five or ten years, how can he be able to make it to the top?" Yuxie frowned, a little annoyed, "That's why I said you are anxious. How old are you? Can't you afford to wait?"

The moonlight reflected Wang Xiaoyuan's face as pale as snow, and he shook his head: "I can afford to wait, but the person I want to save cannot afford to wait."

Wang Xiaoyuan raised his head, Yu Xie was shocked to see that his face was full of tears, the tears were like a spring, flowing down unstoppably.

"Senior Sister, do you think I still have hope to see him in this life?" The tearful young man grabbed her sleeve in despair and asked in pain.

"Or just don't see each other again, until one day I will forget him?"